SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1984
+TSING YI WILL BE DIVIDED INTO TWO CONSTITUENCIES WHICH WILL RETURN THREE ELECTED MEMBERS TO THE DISTRICT BOARD, HE SAID.
*THIS WILL BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE 12 000 REGISTERED VOTERS IN TSING YI TO EXERCISE THEIR RIGHT TO CHOOSE THE IR REPRESENTATIVES TO SERVE THEM ON THE DISTRICT BOARD, HE ADDED.
MP AKERS-JONES ALSO NOTED THAT THE SECOND TSING YI BRIDGE WAS EXPECTED TO COME INTO BEING BY MID-1987.
STRATEGY TO COVER LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENT PLANNING
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THE TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY STUDIES HAD BROUGHT TOGETHER MOST OF THE BEST INFORMATION AVAILABLE ABOUT HONG KONG'S FUTURE NEEDS, THE DEPUTY SECRETARY FOR LANDS AND WORKS, MR TONY EASON, SAID TODAY (SATURDAY).
SPEAKING AT A SEMINAR ORGANISED BY THE HONG KONG INSTITUTE OF PLANNERS, HE SAID THE LONG-TERM STRATEGY WAS BASED ON THE FINDINGS OF THE FIVE EXHAUSTIVE SUB-REGIONAL STUDIES WHICH LOOKED INTO EVERY NOOK AND CRANNY FOR POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES AND ESTABLISHED THAT THE POSSIBILITIES WERE FAR GREATER THAN PREVIOUSLY IMAGINED.
THE STUDIES COVERED NORTH-WEST NEW TERRITORIES, NORTH-EAST NEW TERRITORIES, NORTH LANTAU, JUNK BAY-SAI KUNG AND THE METROPOLITAN AREA.
+MUCH OF THE WORK - THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE METHODOLOGY, THE SUB-REGIONAL SEARCHES - HAVING ONCE BEEN DONE, WILL NEVER NEED TO BE DONE AGAIN, HE SAID.
+THUS WE HAVE CREATED A LONG-TERM PLANNING TOOL, WELL HONED AFTER FOUR YEARS OF INTENSE ACTIVITY, WHICH CAN BE KEPT SHARP BY CONSTANT MONITORING AND WHICH WILL BE READY FOR RE-APPLICATION FROM TIME TO TIME WHEN THE EFFECT OF CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES NEEDS RE-EXAMINATION, HE ADDED.
EXPLAINING HOW THE STUDIES FIRST BEGAN. MR EASON SAID THAT IN THE LATTER HALF OF THE 1970'S, WITH THE NEW TOWNS PROGRAMMES PUSHING AHEAD IN MANY PARTS OF THE NEW TERRITORIES, IT BECAME OBVIOUS THAT THE CHOICE AS TO WHERE PRESSURES SHOULD BE ACCOMMODATED AND WHERE THEY SHOULD BE RESISTED HAD TO BE MADE IN AN INTELLIGENTLY ORGANISED FASHION.
+OVER THE PERIOD OF ABOUT FOUR YEARS OCCUPIED BY THE STUDIES, THE TARGET HAS BEEN CONSTANTLY MOVING.
/+WE HAVE
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